Location systems that are based on scanning for nearby radio sources can estimate the position of a mobile device with reasonable accuracy and high coverage. These systems require ...
Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightower, Ian E. Smith, ...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
People routinely rely on physical and electronic systems to remind themselves of details regarding personal and organizational contacts. These systems include rolodexes, directori...
Jonathan Trevor, David M. Hilbert, Daniel Billsus,...
The development of high throughput techniques and large-scale studies in the biological sciences has given rise to an explosive growth in both the volume and types of data availab...
Shuo Liu, Steve Lin, Mark Woon, Teri E. Klein, Rus...